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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having Taken an Oath." He was led out. On a lower floor a small army of newsmen, photographers and radiomen waited to hear the grand jury's decision. Hours later, the jurors emerged, filed into elevators which took them down to the courtroom of Judge John Clancy. Reporters were let in to hear the report...
...following four situations have resulted from the seething of the contradictions: 1) the proletariat doesn't like the old system any more; 2) the upper classes can't keep going under the old way - it just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree, so that it can't get help from other capitalistic governments, while the proletariat can get help from fellow proletariats in other capitalistic countries...
Furriers were digging foxholes for a long bout with the buyers' strike. Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower-priced furs, the company-like other furriers-hoped to make up in mass sales for the slump in its luxury coats...
Another of man's big (and probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
...light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...